Moving and Editing Tempo Events

Existing tempo events can be moved, edited, deleted, copied, and pasted.

To move a tempo event by dragging:

In the Tempo ruler, drag the triangle for the tempo event left or right.

 

Dragging a tempo event

If the Edit mode is set to Grid, the dragged event snaps to the current Grid value.

To edit a tempo event:

1 In the Tempo ruler, double-click the tempo event.

2 In the Tempo Change window, enter a new Location or BPM value for the tempo event.

3 Click OK.

To delete a tempo event:

Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac) the tempo event (the cursor changes to a Grabber with a “–”).

To copy and paste several tempo events:

1 With the Selector tool, drag in the Tempo ruler to select the range of bars that includes the tempo events.

 

Tempo events selected

Press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) while dragging to select across all Conductor tracks.

2 Choose Edit > Copy.

3 Click in the Tempo ruler at the point where you want to paste the tempo events.

4 Choose Edit > Paste. The contents of the Clipboard are pasted from the insertion point, replacing any existing tempo events.

To extend an Edit selection in a track to the Tempo ruler:

1 With the Selector or Grabber tool, make a Timeline selection.

2 Shift-click in the Tempo ruler.

To select all tempo events:

Double-click with the Selector tool in the Tempo ruler.

To clear a range of selected tempo events:

1 If you want to constrain the selection to the current Grid value, set the Edit mode to Grid.

2 Drag with the Selector tool in the Tempo ruler to select the tempo events you want to remove.

3 Choose Edit > Clear to delete the selected tempo events.